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Cookson Country
Six sets of singing siblings!
FAMILY matters in Cookson Country today. And it doesn’t get much closer than in this picture, which is out of the history of St Stephen’s Church in Shields.
Be a fundraiser with the Fishwives Choir
FISHWIVES are an iconic historical image associated with the North East coast.
A bunch of memories from The Grapes
IT’S a gothic image, appropriate to one of Shields’s oldest and most characterful bars.
John’s memories of old school days
OUR school days never truly leave us. A case in point are some lines from reader John Forster, in East Boldon, for whom a picture of the old St John’s Higher Grade School in Shields brought back memories.
A beery blast from the past
I THINK if you are over a certain age, your memory of pubs is less that of the big Victorian town centre bars than the more homely street corner ones.
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Can you fill in some football blanks?
IT’S a jubilee year but in this context, I’m thinking of reigning kings of the soccer pitch.
Take a walk on the walk side of town
THINGS ARE wilder in South Shields town centre than we may have thought. Literally untamed!
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Pangs of nostalgia for reader Gordon
IT’S always good to hear how Cookson Country on-line is keeping ex-South Tyneside folk in touch with their old stamping ground.
For those with shorts memories
I LOVE it, I love it, I love it. Small boys in big shorts! And they’re so pristine, aren’t they?
Unravelling the riddle of Readheads
OH how ships keeps me on my toes! The latest is the John Readhead which featured in a picture recently, in a piece about the old Shields shipyard. I described it as ‘in- house.’
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Take a look back at Hotel’s history
CERTAIN things draw your eye in photographs and, here, mine homes in on the display window of the pub here.
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Readers respond to St Hilda’s photos
ONCE again, pictures and notes in Cookson Country have struck a chord with readers.
Hoping to reunite old cabin mates
THE ships may not cross the oceans anymore in the way they once did, but memories of on-board friendships still do.
Do you know any of these young footballers?
WE last saw him on the sands at Marsden on a Whit Monday trip out from the church not long after the end of the last war.
Cricket club has been village’s pride for 150 years
Whitburn families have enthusiastically supported their side for generations.
The Price was right for Majestic do!
I’M of an age to remember when, if you had a special ‘do’ coming up, your first thought wasn’t to buy a new outfit, it was to make one.
Some history all the way from Canada
IF St Hilda’s, for a time, was a Shields school that bobbed along below the old photograph radar, so, too, has St John’s School.
Another Readhead tanker ... and another mystery
THE subject of Readhead’s tankards continues to provide something to sup from.
Helping to reunite old pals
ONCE again it’s pleasing to hear of the pleasure that Cookson Country’s pictures have brought for readers.
Was this a sporting field of dreams?
WAS this a field of dreams on which a forebear of yours ran or pedalled to glory?
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A rare shot of old school swimmers
SHIELDS’S Harton Technology College has celebrated 75 years of education on the site.
Can you help drum up some names?
SMART as paint, aren’t they? How proud they look of who the are and what they do.
The deadly consequence of Toe Puff
YOU could be forgiven for thinking that this photograph looks as if it’s been taken in a war zone.
This was a very different Morrison’s shop
ONE of the appealing aspects of any old-established community is its continuity.
There’s quite a bit to The Criterion’s past
YES, my heart sinks into my boots too. The Criterion is one of the landmark buildings in Shields town centre and has been for more than 130 years.
Raise a tankard to Readhead’s history
READHEAD’S shipyard was such a part of family life for a lot of folk here in Shields that there will still be memorabilia of it in many homes.
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Mauretania dazzled us to the end
SHE set out to dazzle and she has certainly succeeded. Was she or wasn’t she? Did they or didn’t they?
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Weather for South Shields
Thursday 24 May 2012
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Temperature: 10 C to 23 C
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